Be At The Forefront Of Children’s Healthcare
The Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) offers a unique combination of big city career opportunity and rural quality of life.
It is home to leading specialists and researchers who provide care in almost every area of pediatric medicine.
About CHaD
As New Hampshire’s only comprehensive, full-service children’s hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) provides an extended system of care that offers advanced pediatric services.CHaD was recognized in 1992 as a “children’s hospital within a hospital” by the Children’s Hospital Association. CHaD is one of 205 children’s hospitals in the United States providing care specifically focused on children.
For more information about our approach to children’s health care, see our Health Care Services section.
Special services
- 10 bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- 23 bed Pediatric and Adolescent Inpatient Unit
- 30 bed Intensive Care Nursery (ICN)
- 30 specialty clinics, including general pediatric consultative clinic and primary care center
- CHaD Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center
- CHaD Regional Education Program
- Child Advocacy and Protection Center
- Child Life Program
- David’s House – a private, nonprofit support to CHaD families
- Emergency neonatal and pediatric transport system
- Full pediatric diagnostic services
- Hood Center for Family Support
- Injury Prevention Center
- NH Poison Information Center
- Regional pediatric subspecialty services
- W.E. Boyle Community Pediatrics Program
Working at CHaD
Devotion to our employees and patients
Using shared governance, we ensure that each employee has a voice and the power to effect change at CHaD. We provide opportunities for pioneering research and are committed to the population we serve.
Competitive compensation
Our salaries are equitable and compete easily with those of urban medical centers. Our outstanding benefits program offers comprehensive medical, dental, life, and disability coverage.
Learning opportunities
We encourage our health care professionals to further their knowledge through tuition reimbursement, conferences, grand rounds, and other training programs.
A diverse employee population
At CHaD, we know that diversity benefits our patients, families, visitors, and the community at large. We are an Equal Employment-Affirmative Action employer. Employees and applicants shall be afforded equal opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or military status.
Benefits
Dartmouth-Hitchcock offers a total compensation package that includes competitive health and welfare benefits. These benefits consist of “Core Benefits” that are provided by Dartmouth-Hitchcock as well as “Benefit Choices,” allowing you to select additional benefits to meet your personal situation and needs.
Nursing Specialties
Nationally accredited as a “children’s hospital within a hospital,” the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD) serves as the regional center for children’s health care. With specialists in more than 30 areas of pediatric medicine, CHaD provides outstanding family-centered care.
From comprehensive and multidisciplinary clinics to a state-of-the-art PICU and level III NICU, CHaD offers exciting opportunities for competent and compassionate nurses. CHaD received its accreditation from the Children’s Hospital Association in 1992.
CHaD nursing specialties
- CHaD Staffing Group
Covering the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and Pediatric Unit, nurses in this dynamic team float between all three CHaD areas. - PainFree Program
CHaD’s acclaimed PainFree Program is a multispecialty clinical service available to all pediatric patients. - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Our world class Intensive Care Nursery (ICN) serves the needs of level I through level III infant patients including; premature, sick newborns, and those with cardiac, surgical, neurological, and metabolic disease. - Pediatric & Adolescent
Provides exceptional family-centered care to patients needing an array of medical and surgical services including neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, oncology, and cardiology. - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
Our renowned Pediatric Intensive Care unit has eight large private patient rooms, all with expansive views of our natural woodland setting. This nurse-designed unit provides all the best to support nursing practice and patient care.
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